We report the first extrasolar planet observations from the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), currently the world's largest, fully steerable, single-aperture optical telescope. We used the OSIRIS tunable filter imager on the GTC to acquire high-precision, narrow-band photometry of the transits of the giant exoplanets, TrES-2b and TrES-3b. We obtained near-simultaneous observations in two near-infrared (NIR) wavebands (790.2 and 794.4 +/- 2.0 nm) specifically chosen to avoid water vapor absorption and skyglow so as to minimize the atmospheric effects that often limit the precision of ground-based photometry. Our results demonstrate a very-high photometric precision with minimal atmospheric contamination despite relatively poor atmospheric conditions and some technical problems with the telescope. We find the photometric precision for the TrES-2 observations to be 0.343 and 0.412 mmag for the 790.2 and 794.4 nm light curves, and the precision of the TrES-3 observations was found to be 0.470 and 0.424 mmag for the 790.2 and 794.4 nm light curves. We also discuss how future follow-up observations of transiting planets with this novel technique can contribute to the characterization of Neptune- and super-Earth-size planets to be discovered by space-based missions like CoRoT and Kepler, as well as measure atmospheric properties of giant planets, such as the strength of atmospheric absorption features.
Visible spectra of (474640) 2004 VN112-2013 RF98 with OSIRIS at the 10.4 m GTC: evidence for binary dissociation near aphelion among the extreme trans-Neptunian objects
Evidence for stellar contamination and water absorption in NGTS-5b's transmission spectra with GTC/OSIRIS
CAS Key Laboratory of Planetary Sciences, Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院行星科学重点实验室，紫金山天文台）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)（加那利天体物理学研究所）；Universidad de La Laguna (ULL)（拉各拉纳大学）
Optical transmission spectrum of HAT-P-47b: evidence for aerosols and tentative TiO absorption
CAS Key Laboratory of Planetary Sciences, Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院行星科学重点实验室，紫金山天文台，中国科学院）；School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学天文与空间科学学院）；Department of Astronomy, University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学天文系）；Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)（加那利天体物理研究所）；Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna (ULL)（拉帕尔马大学天体物理学系）；Department of Physics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”（罗马托维塔大学物理系）；INAF – Turin Astrophysical Observatory（意大利国家天体物理研究所都灵天文台）
